Lazy Quotes - Page 26

• If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Inspirational, Writing, Names

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.34, Xist Publishing

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• I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

  Ned Vizzini

  Ambitious, Know How, Knows

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• You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

  Michael Scott

  Magic, Lost, Grew

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.142, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Lazy Man, Progress

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.61, Penguin

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• Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You don't. In fact, at this point I'm considering a petition to that word stricken from the English language." His grin was almost lazy, the gleam in his eyes an effortless challenge. "If I did, would you sign?

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Voice, Challenges

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Stress, Worry

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• I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.

  George Saunders

  Running, Cheer, Children

  "George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Numbness, Next Day

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

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• There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Feel Better, Men, Long

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.486, Anchor

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• Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

  Craig Parker

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

  Judy Tenuta

  Suicide, Suicidal, Dating

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• With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Cubicles, Generations

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• I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Government, People

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• All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

  George Orwell

  Selfish, Lying, Writing

  1946 'Why I Write'.

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• Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.
  Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

  Edgar Bergen

  Procrastination, Ambition, Bird

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• Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Jealous, Views

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Men, Peaceful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.243, Tyché

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• Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Golf, Piano

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• If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.

  Carl Zimmer

  Crazy, Writing, People

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• I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

  Ava Gardner

  Taken, Acting, Way

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• How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

  Bjork

  Love, Dream, Thinking

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• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  Keith Brantly

  Running, Regret, School

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• To be is to be perceived

  George Berkeley

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

  Sergey Brin

  Technology, Google, Sometimes

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